Hospitals: Waiting Lists
(asked on 3rd July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for all (a) NHS patients classified as urgent and (b) NHS cancer patients classified as urgent.
This question was answered on 10th July 2014
There are no National Health Service waiting time standards specifically for patients classified as ‘urgent'. It is the objective of this government to ensure that all patients receive timely and high quality care.
Clinical priority is – and remains – the main determinant of when patients should be treated within existing waiting times targets.